 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom : as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...de plus pour nous, et nous pouvons, certes, lui appliquer la définition du philosophe que Thoreau a faite ; " To be a philosopher is not merely to have...independence, simplicity, magnanimity, and trust." Mais après avoir dit qu'Emerson était un poëte, il semble, pour ainsi dire, oiseux de tant insister... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 458 pages
...sufficient for him to entertain and express as an author " subtle thoughts," but he aspired rather " so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust," " to solve some of the problems of life not only... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 458 pages
...sufficient for him to entertain and express as an author " subtle thoughts," but he aspired rather " so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust," " to solve some of the problems of life not only... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 460 pages
...sufficient for him to entertain and express as an author " subtle thoughts," but he aspired rather " so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust," " to solve some of the problems of life not only... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Winter - 1887 - 474 pages
...sufficient for him to entertain and express as an author " subtle thoughts," but he aspired rather " so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust," " to solve some of the problems of life not only... | |
 | 1890 - 830 pages
...both, in your necessity, will serve you. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates. — Thoreau. THE water that has no taste is purest; the rain that has no odor is the freshest; and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 646 pages
...because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, — a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 684 pages
...because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, — a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not... | |
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but. so to love wisdom as to live according to> its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. 
